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Re: On time64 and Large File Support
From: |
Andreas K. Huettel |
Subject: |
Re: On time64 and Large File Support |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:40:35 +0100 |
> >
> > Proposal: glibc gains two new build-time configure options:
> > * --enable-hard-time64
> > * --enable-hard-lfs
>
> We should define new target triplets for this if it's really required.
>
That doesn't really help anyone *but* Debian ...
> We need to support legacy binaries on i386. Few libraries are
> explicitly dual-ABI. Whether it's safe to switch libraries above
> glibc to LFS or time64 needs to be evaluated on a per-library
> basis. For most distributions, no one is going to do that work,
> and we have to stick to whathever we are building today.
... since for Debian the libraries with different ABI end up in different
multiarch paths then.
Anyone with a more, ahem, standard filesystem arrangement has to find
a different solution for the problem of legacy binaries.
--
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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